Kick off National Poetry Month with Spiggitz the cat

Deidre Wengen

Thursday

Mar 31, 2011 at 12:01 AMMar 31, 2011 at 9:19 AM

Tomorrow, April 1, marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. And throughout the next couple of weeks you will most likely find more poetry-related posts on this blog. But I am taking the day off work tomorrow to move into a new apartment, so I had to leave you with something to kick off the big event.

And what could be better than a puppet cat reciting verse and expounding on poetry as an art form?

I know that there are a lot of ridiculous, funny, stupid and disturbing videos on YouTube. But I honestly didn't think that I would find something like this. And I really couldn't be more excited.

This is Spiggitz-- a cat that shares his "baggage" in several video messages. This one in particular happens to highlight his love for poetry. In fact, he refers to himself as "the feline Charles Bukowski" so...yeah.

Here's one of the poetry gems from Spiggitz (worthy of publication, no?):

Oh sun / Oh moon / My heart cries and sings / For I am both wretched and blessed / For I poop in a box / And someone else cleans it.

And maybe I'm the only one who finds this entertaining, but seriously-- it's a puppet cat discussing poetry. Just watch the video.

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